Please note that if you
wish to complete your offshore survival training
needed for MMO work that Petans (www.petans.co.uk)
in Norwich (45 minutes away in a car) run
courses weekly (Monday to Wednesday)

Course Details

This Joint Nature Conservation
Committee (JNCC) registered course is
required for you to work as a Marine
Mammal Observer (MMO)
in UK Continental Shelf waters during
offshore projects such as seismic
surveys, pile-driving for offshore wind
farms and decommissioning projects
involving the use of explosives.

* Please
note that you only need to attend a
one day training course to
receive a JNCC MMO certificate as
approved by the JNCC. We do not
grade personnel on this course as this
is not required by the JNCC.

Persons likely to win contracts
working as MMOs are those which have
additional biological or environmental
qualifications and/or have experience of
working at sea. To work as an MMO in
some areas of the UK where marine
mammals are more abundant you will be
required to have experience of working
with marine mammals whether this is
formally as a researcher or through
voluntary work.

Although we do not vet people
attending our courses we would expect
that persons wishing to work as MMOs to
already have this experience or will
endeavour to do so after this course.
Alternatively you may be personnel from
the offshore industry sector who may
like to attend a one day course in order
to gain more knowledge of marine mammal
observation during offshore operations.

Rates

Price: £130 per person - this is the
charge for attending a class in Kings Lynn,
Norfolk. Price includes a light lunch, tea
and coffee.

Every attendee will be issued a detailed course
manual and will receive a certificate on
completing the course satisfactorily.

If you require a group rate or wish for
our trainer to visit your establishment please email
info@intelligentocean.com for a quote.

If you require the Protected Species
Observer (PSO) Mitigation Training for the Gulf
of Mexico, USA, in addition you can
complete this course the next morning for an extra £60 (9:30
to 12:30). The PSO course is a half day
course because alot of the material overlaps
with the JNCC MMO course. So the combination JNCC
MMO/PSO
courses can be completed in a day and a half.

Course Location

Classes will be held in the town of Kings
Lynn in Norfolk at the Globe Hotel.

Globe Hotel

The Globe Hotel is
on the corner of Tuesday Market Place in the
centre of town . Address is: The Globe
Hotel, King Street, Kings Lynn, Norfolk. PE30
1EZ.

Accommodation

Please note that the Globe
Hotel (which is a common choice of accommodation for
our trainees) has a disco in its bar every Friday
and Saturday night. If the courses coincide with the
need to book accommodation on these nights please do
consider if this noise will be unsuitable for you.

Travel

Kings Lynn is on the train line from
London Kings Cross Station with a regular hourly
service. There is also a good train service from
London Stansted Airport (with just one change).
For more comprehensive travel details (especially
from other airports) please click on the
following link.

Please note there are no car parking facilities
at the Globe Hotel. There are several public car
parks in the town within walking distance.

Please note the cost of these vary and that some
have restricted times you can stay. The car
park outside the Globe Hotel (number 1 on map) for
example is very expensive and
has restricted times.

Please factor in enough travel
time to find an appropriate car park elsewhere.

A private car park we recommend is shown on
the car park map with
a red cross. This car park, whose entrance is
on Church Street, always
has spaces and is reasonably priced for
a whole day. Alternatively we suggest the long stay car parks A, D, E or F
(see map).